Posts tagged with "Nintendo of America"

This week, US toy company JAKKS Pacific has unveiled its Super Mario Kart Ride-On, a real-life version of the kart featured in the Mario Kart 7 video game.
This latest addition to JAKKS Pacific’s range of 6V ride-ons, the Super Mario Kart Ride-On was created in partnership with Nintendo, and will be available to buy in the UK from Autumn/Winter this year. While it will feature the full range of in-game sound effects, sadly, though perhaps wisely,...

From Dark Horse comes the news that they will be releasing The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia encyclopedia book in English next year across North America, UK and Australia. Initially released in Japan in December 2011 to celebrate the series’ 25th anniversary, fans over in the west have been eagerly awaiting an English translation.
Essentially a Legend of Zelda Bible, the hardcover book is split up into four sections. The first section...

Nintendo of Europe and Nintendo of America have both released some juicy information regarding the upcoming Mario Kart 7 for the 3DS.
The game has now officially been dated for the 2nd of December in Europe, and the 4th of December in the US. The box art for the game was also revealed earlier and can be seen above, as well as a new trailer which can be seen below.
Will you be getting the new Mario Kart game? Let us know in the...

Monolith Soft’s critically acclaimed Xenoblade Chronicles was released exclusively for the Nintendo Wii across Europe on August 19th and managed to debut in the UK All Formats chart at No.7, despite widespread stock shortages. With unprecedented demand outstripping whatever supply online retailers could get a hold of, the game appears to have sold out, while local retailers struggle with limited copies.
In response, Nintendo UK have said, “We...

Nintendo released a statement today announcing that they “will be reducing the European trade price of the Nintendo 3DS to retailers by around a third from 12th August 2011, as part of a global trade price reduction initiative.”
Nintendo say: “There have been times in the past when we have marked down the trade prices for our video game machines a certain amount of time after launch to further accelerate adoption of the hardware, but never...